Rockefeller Partners Architects designed the detached unit for the eastern-facing ridge location, topping it off with an evocative butterfly-shaped roofline.
This luxurious modern studio and guest house sits above a live tree trunk in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, and pays tribute to the treehouse aesthetic with three stylized modern pillars that evoke natural branches. The Tetra Shed is made of engineered timber, matte black rubber and birch faced plywood. A single unit is large enough to function as an office or guest room, and multiple units can be connected. Looking like an architectural interpretation of Darth Vader’s helmet, the Tetra Shed is a geometric volume with flaps that open to provide a door and windows.
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The appropriately named Blob V3 functions as a mobile guest house, portable backyard office or secondary library space. It features a skylight and a front hatch that opens to let in air and additional sunlight. But open that discreet door on the side and you’ll find an ultramodern studio space with lots of built-in niches for storage. Blob VB3 by dmvAįrom the outside, it looks like a dinosaur egg: it’s simply a white blob. You can even configure your own customized pod in one of five different sizes, and choose the color of the exterior. Sleek and minimalist, the WorkPod by Ecospace architecture studio is a compact detached office with optional integrated work areas and storage systems. Modern and often modular, these 14 compact office designs fit into virtually any outdoor space, and they’re so good-looking, they practically function as yard art.
Why settle for a cramped corner of a noisy house when your home office could be a separate unit tucked into the greenery of your backyard? Detached office modules, art studios, recording studios and other work spaces help keep the line between work and home life sharply delineated, but cut your commute down to mere steps.